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Thank you, NYC

Thank you, NYC

We are thrilled that The New York Times chatted with recent alum Jahmil Eady about her experience with the NYC Web Development Fellowship. The program is incredibly special to us, and it’s awesome to comb through tweets to see Jahmil’s story excite and inspire people—mostly because of how deeply it excites and inspires us. The

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Seeds

Seeds

The following is a guest post by John Richardson and originally appeared on his blog. John is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Background: ADK 46-R The ADK 46ers are a set of 46 mountains in upstate NY higher than 4000 feet. If you climb all of these

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Hide Your Keys, Hide Your Tokens … Unless Deploying to Heroku

The following is a guest post by Greg Eng and originally appeared on his blog. Greg is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. In that case, you have to do a little more than just hide them. Typically, an API will require a key or authentication token before

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Database Column Type – Array

The following is a guest post by David Bella and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Okay, So More Like “List” Relational databases are a great way to store, well, related data, in a base. Often times, we have to store

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Self-Referential Associations, AKA Self Joins

The following is a guest post by Daniel Chang and originally appeared on his blog. Daniel is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Week 2 of learning Rails. After 6 weeks at Flatiron, I feel like a beginner again, but not quite like I’m stranded on a deserted

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Flatiron Day 25: Networking

Kicking-off week 5 we started the morning with pair coding on our class App LocationQuiz

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gem.first

The following is a guest post by Charlotte Chang and originally appeared on her blog. Charlotte is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. Click image below to access presentation…

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Objective-C Sins // Speaker Deck

Objective-C Sins // Speaker Deck Matt Bischoff's Homepage from Tumblr came by and talked to our iOS students about Objective-C Sins. Check out his presentation!

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Flatiron Day 19: Debugger Day

A project where we had to add NSFetchedResultsController and its delegate in order to fill a TableView with data.

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FASTER FIVE …on OSX

The following is a guest post by Sam Yang and originally appeared on his blog. Sam is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. OSX has some pretty handy shortcuts that a lot of users (especially those super adept at keyboard shortcuts and terminal) sometimes forget. Here are a

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Creating my first gem

The following is a guest post by Scott Luptowski and originally appeared on his blog. Scott is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. A few weeks ago, I built a Ruby script to find the current standings of the English Premier League and display them in the terminal.

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